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00:03 We're going to have a Lord's supper after the sermon uh because we believe the ministry word would put us in a
00:10 better place to appreciate celebrating the elements together. So um we've
00:16 watched the play and the question that is before us today is uh what difference
00:21 does Easter make? uh we're celebrating Easter amid a difficult uh time. If you
00:28 really think about it, um we've just emerged from a situation where 150
00:34 Christians have been massacred uh in Kenya uh by terrorists. Seems like as if
00:41 we got so many people killed that we don't seem to notice. Good thing the Pope brought it up this morning. Um but
00:46 it is Christian brethren all over the world being killed. We live in difficult times haunted by death, pain and
00:53 suffering. Uh we have witnessed 150 people die in an air crash simply
01:00 because we put in place security measures that make sure that no
01:05 terrorists can enter the cockpit. Now the captain cannot enter the cockpit and so the people die. uh no matter what we
01:12 ti try the problems the triple problems of death pain and suffering still dog
01:18 us. So when we look at Easter this morning we need to ask this question
01:24 really what difference does it make? Why should we celebrate this? Because the world is going to have death and and
01:30 pain and suffering all along to be important to celebrate something
01:37 Christmas uh Easter must make some difference. We looked at the actors Peter and
01:43 Barabus. Today we home in a very hypothetical question. For some of you
01:48 who don't know, Barabus was a rebel leader. He was destined. He was uh uh
01:55 arraigned, convicted, and was supposed to be executed. At the last minute, he was brought up. And when Jesus totally
02:03 innocent, the only charge against him was he had sedition. He had said that he would destroy the temple and build it in
02:10 three days, which is ridiculous, isn't enough? All right. Uh and yet Jesus was arraigned on that charge, found guilty,
02:17 and they the same crowd that welcomed Jesus on Palm Sunday a week before, the same crowd say crucify him and save
02:24 Barabas, a man who had lived by the sword. And Barabas a man who lived by
02:29 the sword um saw his place taken by this innocent man Jesus who was then killed.
02:36 Then we look back in history what happened to Barabus? What happened? It's a very interesting question because we
02:42 in history books we don't know what happened. Uh surely he must have known about Jesus. Do you know that the first
02:47 when Jesus when Peter preached in Acts chapter 2 3,000 men 3,000 people came to
02:54 know the Lord. Second time it happened Acts chapter 3 to 4 uh 5,000 men which
03:00 means if you equate their wives it'll be another 10 altogether 10,000 which makes about 13,000 people in a population of
03:08 Jerusalem which is 30,000 to 50,000 which is 35 to 40% of the population 35
03:14 40% population come to know faith in Christ surely we would have heard something 500
03:20 people witnessed the resurrection of Christ they talked to the risen Christ That's point. That's 2% of the
03:26 population. 2% population saw Jesus. Don't tell me Barabas, the man to whom
03:34 his life was saved and given back to him, would not have been so curious to go to the tomb, have a look, see for
03:39 himself, and meet the risen Jesus. We don't know what happened uh to Barabus,
03:47 but we know what happened to Peter. Peter was the fisherman, walked with
03:53 Jesus for three years of his life, followed him right up to the end. And in
03:58 the end, when the chips were down, he betrayed Jesus three times. We know that
04:05 after the resurrection, Peter was never the same. His life was completely turned
04:10 around. He preached that first gospel message that brought 3,000 to know Christ. And after that on pain of death
04:18 or punishment or incarceration or beatings, he never looked back. And they
04:23 actually crucified him upside down on the app way right outside Rome. If you go to Rome nowadays, they'll show you
04:30 the spot where he's allegedly uh crucified. Here is a coward, a normal
04:35 ordinary man, fisherman like the rest of normal people. And yet his life could be changed around. What difference did did
04:43 it make? The resurrection made that difference. Let's look at a passage which the Lord will have us look at this
04:49 morning. This is Paul one uh sorry 2 Corinthians chapter 4. Uh knowing that
04:54 he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you
05:00 into his presence. For it is for your sake so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase
05:07 thanksgiving to the glory of God. So we do not lose heart. Although our outer
05:13 self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us
05:20 an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison as we look not to the things that are seen, but to the things that
05:26 are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but things that are unseen are eternal. So let's start with
05:33 a word of prayer. Lord, we have your word before us. We ask that you minister
05:38 to us what this means and what Easter means in our lives. We ask what would you say? Amen.
05:45 What difference does Easter make? Three things I would like to share with you from this passage. One, eternal life
05:51 starts now. Two, pain becomes a lifebuilding process. Three, suffering for him multiplies our glory. Let's look
05:59 at the first verse. knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us with
06:05 Jesus and bring us bring with you into his presence. This is the most important
06:11 bedrock of Easter and it was the fact that Barabas would have been confronted
06:16 with the fact that Jesus roused from the bed means that we who have faith in him
06:23 will also rise. Eternal life actually starts now. Jesus says in John, if you
06:29 have believed in his words, you pass out of judgment but must pass from death into life. So therefore, eternal life
06:35 begins the moment you put your faith in the one who rose. And so therefore, we share the same faith as Jesus Christ who
06:43 rose from the dead. This resurrection is a historical event. No more historical event. The fact that we can actually sit
06:49 here this morning and celebrate Easter in peace. Why? Because we're independent
06:55 country. Independence won for us uh in 1957 and that event causes a whole chain
07:03 of events that result in our peacefully being able to congregate here and worship. Uh the fact that you some of
07:10 you sit here with your children. It's simply because you have an event. It's a historical event when you got married when you said your vows and your
07:16 children are here in safety and in comfort and in love because of a historical event. The resurrection is a
07:23 historical event that changes the way we look at life. I remember when I was a
07:28 young man, I was actually terrified of death. I would actually have a recurring dream and a recurring dream I would have
07:35 was to be was to wake up in the middle of night in a coffin and they somehow buried me
07:42 by mistake. Thought I was dead and I couldn't get out and was claustrophobic. got to be banging and imagine banging in
07:49 your coffin for all eternity. That was a recurring dream. I remember uh uh being a student in Sydney in a camp called
07:57 Overseas Christian Fellowship Camp. And we were there at the camp and uh I was uh assigned a bunk. I took the bottom
08:05 bunk in the middle of the night. I had my dream again because I terrified of death. And I woke up. I thought I was in
08:11 the coffin. And then it was this thing in front of me, you know. I banged on it. I kicked on it. And the guy who was
08:17 on top of me was like being raptured. He was going up and down, up and down, up and down. I was wondering what the hell was happening. You know, Christian came
08:23 being raptured, you know, but that was because of this inward
08:29 obsession feeling what's happened with death. But you know when when when when Paul says because Jesus rose, we we
08:37 rise. Death used to be an executioner, but the gospel just makes him a
08:42 gardener. Very very important words. Herbert uh George Herbert is a pastor
08:48 from New Zealand who wrote a beautiful uh uh poem about Easter many years ago and he's saying that today if you are
08:56 someone who faces death it is like an exe executioner imagine you've got the two drug
09:03 criminals in Bali today um Andrew Chan Suku Maran okay there Australia is
09:10 trying to get them sprung from that uh execution but they live under a death
09:16 penalty. And no matter whether I give you a turkey dinner or give you Christmas presents or
09:22 whatever you do, if you live under a death penalty, you're not going to enjoy your dinner. And for the rest of the
09:29 world, if you don't have a hope, you are going to face death like an executioner.
09:36 You're going to do you know that you are actually right now under a death sentence. Every single person under a death sentence. But with the
09:42 resurrection of Jesus Christ, because he rose and you have a prospect arising, the gospel makes death a gardener. That
09:50 means he's going to usher you into the garden of Eden of heaven. That's the
09:56 difference that so therefore if death is therefore no longer an executioner and
10:02 is a gardener we can therefore live with certainty with boldness with optimism
10:08 because we actually have a future. Look at the lives of the disciples. Every
10:14 single apostle except one were incarcerated and martyed for the faith.
10:21 James very soon afterwards every single Peter all of them including Paul only
10:27 left John. John lived a long life. He was actually imprisoned in the island of Patmos where he wrote revelations. How
10:34 could a group a mly crew you know the mark tells us very clearly when you look at the gospel at the time of crucifixion
10:41 Jesus every single fellow left. Only the women were left behind. The men were all gone. And yet these 12 men later on with
10:50 the exception of Judas would have their lives turned around. They must be turned around by something, isn't it? Something
10:55 miraculous must have happened to have changed the lives of disciples. And this same miracle is something that we
11:01 actually celebrate every Easter. So that when we partake of the the the the bread and the wine and we celebrate this
11:08 Easter by singing together, we remind each other that this historical event changes the color of our day. Changes
11:14 the color of our hope. We have a hope that doesn't change. It is with the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
11:22 The second event that happens is that pain becomes a lifebuilding process instead a process that destroys us.
11:29 Death is defeated. Pain becomes a lifebuilding process. So we do not lose
11:34 heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed
11:40 day by day. Something is happening.
11:45 This is u you know in my house we have a big mirror at the side. My son uses it
11:51 for dancing and we notice when the young people come into the house they they always stop there and and
11:58 you look at your abs. I used to to to to to disturb my sons for for doing that.
12:05 Then I realized when I was young I used to do the same thing.
12:10 But why did I stop? because every time I look inside, I see this. So therefore,
12:15 I'm not likely to look at it anymore. In fact, I get so paranoid about it. I don't even like to take photos. I
12:21 recently got a shock. You know, I was I I you know, I went to the passport office and I got my nice photograph
12:27 taken from a studio. Isn't it photoshopped nicely? And then you go there, they don't even want that. They want real
12:33 life picture, take a lousy camera, put on a daggy suit, and then take a picture and I look like a ghost.
12:40 And and the issue is that as we get older, as we suffer, as life takes a toll, imagine I see some of young people
12:47 working up to 2:00. Now, how long can you do that? It's going to take a toll on your life. As it takes a toll in your
12:53 life, we start to look at the toll it takes and say, you lament, oh, my hair used to be black, now it is white. And I
13:00 used to pull out all the white ones until there's a big hole here. Is it? But if you look carefully, this is a
13:08 statue of David in Florence. Beautiful sculpted by Michelangelo.
13:15 Not this David. He's not naked. Michelangelo said these words which are
13:22 approximate what Paul means. The more the marble weighs, the more the statue grows.
13:29 What he's saying is that we're like a sculpture. And what God does when we
13:34 suffer, when we encounter pain for the gospel's sake, he chips off a little bit. And a little bit comes off, but the
13:42 statue grows bigger and bigger and clearer and more distinct and more
13:47 realistic as more of it gets chipped off. And the process is simultaneous.
13:53 It's reciprocal. Whatever is chipped off results in something growing more beautiful. The ugly parts are being
13:59 chipped off. And it's also proportional because the more you chip off, the more the statue grows. The less you chip off,
14:04 the less the statue grows. And and and and Paul is trying to tell us a marvelous process. Not only we have a
14:12 certified sure hope because of Easter that right now we have a process of life
14:18 in us that as we strive for God and as our hair turns white and as our body is
14:24 wasting our inner selves are revitalized by the power of the Holy Spirit made new all
14:31 the time and not have and we don't have to lament it. I have a colleague, a
14:38 church member some years ago. His name was HB Lee who had cancer of the lung and I can never forget HB Lee because as
14:45 a young Christian he used to testify about the glory of Jesus and his was his defining moment was in MCA hall when we
14:51 actually had a evangelistic meeting where 2,000 people were gathered and he was there with his oxygen tank and he
14:58 was testifying to the glory of Jesus. And his wife tells me that this is a remarkable man that that that when the
15:03 cancer spread and and started to knock off parts of his body and then one day he lifted up his hands and he couldn't
15:09 lift up his right hand to to to hold his cup of coffee. And you know what he did? He praise God because he got the left
15:15 hand. But isn't that sad? All of us can be like that when we
15:22 lament the loss of what we have and we just thank God for what we have left.
15:28 But that's a very dismal view of Christianity. Paul is telling us the left hand drops off means there's
15:34 something else that grows inside in in its place. That the real you as your body wastes away, the real you is being
15:42 rebuilt day in and day. There's an inner you that's being revitalized by the Holy Spirit. So maybe we can get a mirror
15:50 that looks like that and we see the real self, the spiritual self instead of the false self.
15:56 This is a picture of uh departed uh Lie Kuan Yu and I thought it was beautiful
16:02 to to to basically go down this road to see the kind of illustration that might
16:07 bring up Paul's point. You see him from young all the way to a muscular man and
16:13 then he goes starts to deteriorate right down you know and then he comes to to
16:19 this part where he looks like this and then he says I've got no regrets. I spent my life so much of it holding up this country, building up this country.
16:26 There's nothing more that I need to do at the end of the day. What have I got a successful Singapore? What have I given
16:32 up my life? And and and the irony is that as you
16:38 grow up in this life, the more his body deteriorates,
16:44 the more people seem to admire him. In fact, the height of his glory is actually lying in his coffin where the
16:51 body is shriveled up to a little husk and doesn't move anymore. And yet, millions of Singaporeans go around and
16:57 they pay respects. Why? Because they recognize there's something that you cannot see beyond your body. Your body
17:04 has been wasted away. But Singapore grows bigger and stronger and more prosperous as his body is wasted away
17:11 in serving his nation. None of us is going to be like that.
17:17 But a more important person will come to our funeral. As we waste away and and
17:22 and give out our lives in serving God, we incur the smile and the favor of our
17:29 Lord Jesus Christ. And that's the person that's worth more than 5 million people
17:35 going around your coffin. That's not going to help you. When God smiles and as we give up our lives and serve him
17:42 and as as our hair wears off and you know Our health wears down. Our
17:48 arthritis gets us. Our inner selves are being renewed. So therefore, we are to
17:53 focus on the statue, not the marble. Don't just focus on preserving your abs
17:59 and your face and your hair and your no point. It's like trying to stop ice cream from melting. You are going to
18:05 grow old. You are going to fall sick. Get a grip. But focus on the statue.
18:12 Every part that falls off reveals a new experience in your life full of vigor,
18:17 full of faith, full of power and triumphant love for our Lord Jesus Christ. Lastly,
18:24 suffering for him multiplies our glory. For this light momentary affliction is
18:29 preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison as we look not to the things that are seen, but
18:36 things that are unseen. For things that are seen are transient, but things that are unseen are eternal. Folks, we got to
18:44 learn to see reality. Reality is seen by the eyes of faith. This reality is not
18:50 seen by your eyes. You know, all of us seek glory, isn't it? Yeah. I mean, what do the ladies do?
18:58 They they when they go out, they've got this uh they've got all sorts of gadgets. Many ladies pack uh the the you
19:04 know, a mirror, right? ah where in the in the purse with some rouge or some
19:09 foundation or something because that's your glory. You go out there, rain, no more glory. You got to put some more back on, right? Sex, you know, because
19:16 because we all want to look good. We want to account for something. You know, glory in Hebrew is kabot, which is
19:22 weight. You need to be weighty, not heavy. But but you want to matter. For
19:29 men is different. You know, you want to be your glory is in your physical
19:34 appearance, isn't it? And so therefore you do all sorts of things in order to to to to enhance what is seen and some
19:41 men take steroids just how they can get so big isn't it and they get very big and big and big you know what is seen
19:47 you know the important thing is not what's seen it's what unseen if you look down there most men who take steroids
19:53 you tell you a little scientific fact the more steroids you take the bigger your muscles are the smaller your
19:58 testicles shrink so young girls before you marry a man who looks like that understand that the
20:06 more steroids he takes, the more muscle he has, the smaller his testicles shrink. And that's important. What is unseen is more important than what seen.
20:12 You know why? Because you have small testicles. You have no children.
20:17 You have no body. The sperms are all duds, right? So maybe you want to marry somebody like that.
20:27 He may not look very good, but he's got a good pair down here, you know? I mean,
20:33 all right. So, so um that's a physiological fact which people don't understand in life. Okay. So, what is
20:40 seen is not necessarily all that reality. What is unseen is more important. This is a picture of Stalin,
20:47 the largest largest monument to a dictator Stalin that was ever built in
20:54 Europe 1955. Stalin was a cruel horrible dictator in the Czech Republic. They
21:01 they they built this up and uh on the day before it was commissioned, the
21:06 person who sculpted this killed himself. That's how he was hated. And Stalin put this up because he wants to live forever
21:15 at least in glory because for him this is glory. uh you know but within seven
21:21 years they blew up his seven years all this trouble they blew it up and you know
21:27 what they put in return in its place in the Czech Republic in Prague they put a
21:32 metronome take
21:39 I think that's so ironic isn't it that whatever you man builds up his own glory
21:47 God puts with the Time tick tock brings everything down. Nothing stands the
21:52 ravages of time. No matter how we strive for glory, we we can make no difference
21:58 to that. It's a process. Paul is saying for this light momentary affliction.
22:04 Suffering prepares us for eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison. Which means
22:11 suffering alters the future. Suffering alters the kind of glory that you
22:17 actually have eventually when you go and to be with the Lord. You know, most of us can't alter what we look like in the
22:24 future. Who does this look like? Anybody know? Young people don't answer.
22:30 Huh? Young people. Oh, Brad Pitt. That's her her idol. So, if you grow like this,
22:36 you know, and someday you will look like that and you look like that, right? What if you were born like this? What do you
22:43 look like in the end, Mr. Beast?
22:54 See, when you're born, you have got no capability of determining how you will look like 30 years now, 40 years from
23:00 now. There's absolutely nothing you could do. And what God is saying, there is a future. There's going to be a
23:07 future you. You know, imagine seeing somebody very young, 5 years old. Later
23:13 on, she grows up to beautiful woman in her 20ies. There's some resemblance, but
23:19 there's a lot of change, isn't it? Paul tells us in Corinthians uh uh 15 that
23:24 one day we will have new bodies, but there will be some correspondence as if a child to a beautiful young woman.
23:30 There is. And that correspondence to the glory that you actually have. The glory that will last forever and ever and ever
23:37 is not a once and for all process as inevitable. It is actually alterable. You know, you could look like Brad Pitt
23:44 instead of Mr. Bean. Wow. Suffering. Suffering changes and
23:51 multiplies glory because in your suffering you trust in Christ. to suffer for Christ
23:57 and that alters what you're going to look like in future for this life momentary affliction is preparing is
24:03 preparing it's not you know suffering is not an uh inconvenience and you all the time you're praying God take all the
24:09 suffering away but you actually can harness that this suffering God redeems our pain redeems our suffering so
24:16 whatever happens to us is going to work out for the glory of his kingdom our
24:23 glory is our pain that's Five Jesus Christ when he was resurrected
24:29 has a perfect body but got holes. There is a hole where the spear went in. There's a hole where the hand because
24:34 the his his defects his suffering is multiplied in glory. When you put your
24:41 finger into his side, you put your finger and you feel the depth of his
24:48 love. You can't have done that or experienced that outside the
24:53 crucifixion. When God is remote and had not revealed himself with Jesus Christ, you know God, do you know God is love,
25:00 you you know yala yala. But when Christ comes down is crucified, you stick your
25:06 hand right inside there. Then you feel the depth of his love.
25:11 You know, it's a very interesting uh movie last time called Lethal Weapon Three, isn't it? Danny Glover and and
25:17 Mel Gibson, and they're warriors. They they attack and they they defeat all sorts of robbers. And then they were
25:23 joined by Renee Russo which is another cop. And the interesting thing in the movie is that you know what they're doing? They're comparing scars.
25:30 The more scars you are you have the braver you are. More bullet wounds mean you survive and more gravitas more
25:37 glory. And in a sense Christians are like that in the sense that the more suffering that they go through the more
25:43 glory it multiplies for God. So what does difference does Easter make today for us? It tells us that eternal life
25:50 starts today. Don't go out. You will go out and and and and face you need to face life full
25:58 on with triumphant expectation that whatever happens to you, it may be uh
26:04 you in that plane or you may be in a helicopter that went down in in in the greasy balan or in illness but you don't
26:12 actually have to fret. Death no longer becomes an executioner. Death is merely
26:18 a gardener and the pain that you go through in the process in your life
26:23 becomes a building process. The more the marble knocks off the more the statue grows and let us be unafraid to face
26:31 suffering. But the momentary light affliction compared to the weight of glory that God will actually provide us
26:37 in the end or will be be like Barabus because today we don't know what happened to Barabus.
26:44 He probably did not accept Christ. If he continued his in his trajectory as a rebel leader, he would most certainly
26:52 have been slaughtered. If not, then it would be in AD70 when the temple was raised to the ground and you know much
26:58 of the population of Jerusalem was killed. But if you look at Barabus, he
27:04 dealt with life with his sword. Power, money, influence, that's his life. Peter
27:12 on the other hand dealt with life by being willing to follow Jesus. Not
27:18 falling with a sword but the willingness to give himself as a servant. And you know happened within 300 years of Peter
27:25 living right the Roman Empire was Christianized 300 years you know not by
27:31 the sword but by the gospel of Jesus Christ. That's how powerful in that
27:37 effect has turned this whole world around. Should we be a Barabus or a
27:44 Peter? And Peter years later on wrote these words. And I shall end the sermon
27:49 with these words. Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
27:55 according to his great mercy. He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus
28:02 Christ from the dead to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled,
28:08 unfading, kept in heaven for you who by God's power are being guarded through
28:14 faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. This is the reason why
28:21 Peter was changed. He had a hope. He had an inheritance
28:27 that is imperishable, undefiled, unfading, kept in heaven for him. And he
28:34 knew that as he walked on the world that day to the day he died, he was protected
28:40 through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed at the at the last time. So,
28:45 let's uh come now to the uh Lord's table. We're going to be taking part in
28:52 the Lord's supper. Can I have the ushers out here to start to distribute the elements today? What we're going to do
28:58 is uh we're going to be singing the Lord's supper to each other with a song which Brandon will will share with us in
29:04 a minute. We bring before you here Easter. Easter is the time where we
29:10 participate in that one event in the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. If the
29:18 bread remains whole, our lives are shattered. If the bread is shattered,
29:26 our lives become whole. Jesus Christ poured out his life as
29:32 exemplified by the wine. And as it's poured out, we are made whole. So, can
29:37 we have the elements uh distributed right now, please? And Brandon will sing the song once.
29:43 Brandon [Music]
29:48 and when we all got it, we will stand up and we will sing to each other in a
29:54 reflective manner. You don't have to scream and screech because this is this this song represents what we are saying
30:00 to the Lord that we participate in your death. We
30:20 [Music]
30:34 Heat. Heat.
30:47 [Music]
31:15 That happened.
32:07 Those of you who have not received the elements, can you put Put your hands up so the ushers will know where you are. Put your hands right up. Those who
32:14 haven't received it, put your hands right up. Ushers, please minister to those who've got hands up.
32:20 Keep your hands up until you got your elements. Keep your hands up
32:29 over there. the back.
32:36 They call in front of you. [Music]
33:05 There's a gentleman at the back with his hands raised up and he still doesn't have anything.
33:11 Please. Then there's Grace next to him
33:16 [Music]
33:25 over there. Jo Josephine next to you.
33:31 Let's two more at the side.
33:37 Two more there.
33:42 If there's not enough bread, there's some more bread here.
33:48 Cha
33:53 bread.
34:10 Can I invite all of us to stand? We'll sing to each other. Don't sing to
34:15 the blank stage. Turn to each other. Sing these words and we mean it.
34:21 So is my love for you.
34:29 Let's eat and drink of the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.
34:39 Let's pray. Father Lord, we just thank you so much for your sacrifice on the cross 2,000
34:47 years ago. And we pray that as we leave the church
34:52 this Easter that the depth of those wounds continue to astound us, continue
34:59 to affect how we live and love and work in
35:05 this world. That it'll be only the power your love in the gospel that transforms us and empowers us to live holy lives to
35:13 glorify your name. And we thank you that because he lives, we too will live
35:20 forever. We praise you for Jesus' sake. Let's have a seat.
35:27 [Music]
35:39 There's a peace I've come to know.
35:45 Though my heart and flesh may fail, [Music]
35:52 there's an anchor for my soul.
35:57 I can say it is well.
36:04 Jesus has overcome
36:10 and the grave is over.
36:16 The victory is one.
36:21 He is risen from the dead. And I will
36:28 rise when he calls my name. No more sorrow,
36:36 no more pain. I will rise
36:42 on eos wings before my God. Fall on my
36:49 knees and rise.
36:55 I will rise.
37:01 There's a day that's drawing near.
37:07 When this darkness breaks to light
37:14 and the shadows disappear
37:19 and my faith shall be my eyes.
37:25 Jesus has overcome
37:30 and the grave is overwhelmed. [Music]
37:36 The victory is one. He is ris from the dead. And I
37:46 will rise when he calls my name. No more sorrow,
37:55 no more pain. I will rise
38:01 on eagle wings before my God.
38:06 on my knees and rise.
38:12 [Music] I will rise
38:21 and I hear the voice of many angels
38:27 sing. Worthy is the lamb.
38:32 And I hear the cry there longing heart. Worthy is the lamb.
38:43 And I hear you the voice of men. The angels sing.
38:50 Worthy is the lamb. And I hear the cry
38:56 of every longing heart. Worthy is the lamb.
39:05 [Music] Worthy is the lamb.
39:13 And I will rise when he calls my name.
39:21 No more sorrow, no more pain. I will rise
39:28 [Music] on eagle wings before my God. Fall on my
39:36 knees and rise.
39:42 I will rise.
39:48 And I will rise.
39:53 [Music]
40:04 Shall we stand and sing this song together?
40:20 There's a peace I've come to know.
40:26 Though my heart and flesh may fall,
40:31 there's an anchor for my soul.
40:36 I can say it is well. Singing. Jesus.
40:42 Jesus has overcome and the grave is overwhelmed.
40:53 The victory is won. He is risen from the dead and I will
41:04 rise when he calls my name.
41:09 No more sorrow, no more pain. I will
41:15 rise on eagle wings before my God. Fall on my
41:24 knees and rise. [Music]
41:30 I will rise. [Music]
41:35 There's a day that's drawing near.
41:40 When this darkness breaks to light
41:46 and the shadows disappear
41:51 and my face shall be my eyes. Jesus
41:57 Jesus has overcome
42:02 and the grave is over. [Music]
42:08 The victory is one. He is risen from the dead and I will
42:18 rise when he calls my name.
42:24 No more sorrow, no more pain. I will
42:29 rise on eagle wings before my God. Fall on my
42:38 knees and rise.
42:44 I will rise. [Music] And I will rise.
42:58 [Music]
43:15 Do not fix your eyes on seen things.
43:21 They are temporary and fleeting because they will cause you to lose heart. The
43:27 unseen reality is that freshening refurbishing that the spirit is
43:32 undertaking is observable to the eye of faith.
43:38 The unseen which are no less real for being invisible are eternal and
43:44 imperishable. Now receive the benediction. Father bless them. Sanctify them by the
43:52 truth. Your word is truth. Amen. Please be seated. After the silent meditation,
43:59 the service is over.
